SICSA CHI Event

Monday, 4. April 2011 18:04 | Author:Donny

I am co-organising a SICSA event at CHI in Vancouver this year.
Details are thin on the ground so far, but they will appear here:
ubiplayground.com/chi/ => chi.ubiplayground.com when the DNS updates

At the moment that page allows those in SICSA universities to sign up, this will let us book a venue with enough space (and buy enough beer) so fill in your details as soon as you can!

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Back!

Thursday, 20. January 2011 11:39 | Author:Donny

There were a few server problems, but we are back up and running.

Hopefully more posts will start to appear now….

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Location based Adverts

Thursday, 25. November 2010 12:59 | Author:Owain

Another interesting privacy piece about the growth in location-based advertising.

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Opting out of Ubicomp?

Thursday, 25. November 2010 10:57 | Author:Donny

The article linked to yesterday by Owain regarding the vandalism of homes of those who opted out of google’s Street View service in Germany raises an interesting point for system designers.
The ubiquity of Street View is the very reason that this vandalism is able to take place – people and places are notable by their absence. So how can we design systems and services that allow people NOT to use them?
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Egging blurry houses

Wednesday, 24. November 2010 14:09 | Author:Owain

Interesting reversal of roles, those who opted out of street view have been targeted with graffiti and eggs.

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CHI 2011 Workshop! Get your Ethics ready

Tuesday, 23. November 2010 18:25 | Author:Donny

The sub-domain for the ethics workshop at Chi 2011 in Vancouver is live.
Head over to ethics.ubiplayground.com for more information.

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No darkness…

Thursday, 21. October 2010 18:16 | Author:Donny

Well, this theme is much lighter. A custom banner which looks like it fits?

Any complaints of it being too bright and it’ll go back to the scary theme.

Most of the posts have been carried from the old site now, enjoy.

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Website Theme

Thursday, 21. October 2010 16:29 | Author:Donny

It seems the current theme is a little to dark (depressing was the term used) so I think I’ll find a new theme with a nicer tone while Ali has the token for the Workshop document.

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Research in the Large @ Ubicomp

Sunday, 3. October 2010 16:30 | Author:Alistair

A great day of discussions at the Research in the Large workshop at Ubicomp.

Very cool to meet other people working on mass participation systems. Check out the workshop papers.

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Another Yoshi Update

Sunday, 12. September 2010 18:25 | Author:Donny

A new version of Yoshi has been released with a couple of new features.

Update please!

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